At its Thursday meeting, the Faculty Senate unilaterally approved revisions to the Honor Code that would explicitly allow exam proctoring. Their action marks the end to the over 102-year precedent of “shared governance” on academic integrity between Stanford faculty and students by circumventing a student vote on the matter.
The vote come after a years-long process of developing the recommendations to Stanford’s academic integrity and discipline policies in consultation with dozens of student groups, elected student leaders, the deans of Stanford’s seven schools and research on other universities’ policies.